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By William Shakespeare. (from Macbeth) Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble,
'Double double toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldron bubble' is a rhyming couplet from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, chanted by the supernatural three witches.
Like the first song, ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’, “Double, double toil and trouble;/ Fire burn and cauldron bubble” appears at a critical juncture of the play. It gives a hint to the audience what is going on in Macbeth’s over-ambitious mind.
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. _Second Witch_ Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of pow’rful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. _All_
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Spoken by the first witch, these words form part of her song.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble'? From Shakespeare’s Macbeth, 1605. The line is from the celebrated Witches Song, where the three hags sit around a boiling cauldron summoning up an enchantment on Macbeth: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Double double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Then the charm is firm and good. The lines “double double toil and trouble….” are written in trochaic tetrameter, which is bit unusual because Shakespeare generally writes in iambic pentameter.
